Top Cop Should Learn to Holster His "TASER"

Right good prose, but I'm not so quick to laugh about this. I do not see this as an abuse of power, so much as just bad taste. And I think there are way too many stones flying out of glass houses these days. Personally, I think Foxworth should perhaps be fired for allowing tasers on the streets. They are being used as playthings for cops who love to indulge in torture of other human beings. It's really gross. But fired for this? Please. I don't think so.

IMHO I feel Foxworthy's behavior is just another sign of the arrogant, entitlement mentality of many cops and others in power. I don't believe like so many out there that he was just stupid or careless. If so, is that the kind of judgement you want to see in your chief of police?

No, I think it was more like "the Fox" believed he was beyond reproach. That this, like his other little cell phone fiasco with his now current wife (you know - the "informer") would be swept under the rug and all would be forgiven IF it ever did come out. Like most all scandals having to do with the PPB. After all, he's got his mentor, Potter, there to back him up.

Yes, the PPB definitely has more important problems to worry about than this. But if the chief feels he's above the law (or can circumvent it, or can game it), is it any wonder so many of his charges feel the same?

Also, I have to agree with Steve Duin, when did Foxworthy squeeze in the time to do his job?

Finally, as a victim of sexual harassment, it sickens me to see people jump on this Angela the way they are. So, there's a lot of unaswered questions... timing, motivation, etc. Painting her as a sleasy harlot, a woman scorned, a vindicative gold digger, is just plain WRONG. It's just too much like calling into question the reputation of a rape victim. As usual, it's the old "boys will be boys" and we "good ol' girls" should just go with the flow if we want to hang with the big dogs in the dirty work-a-day world.

Just a guess, but could Angela's decision to file this suit have come after the SERT team's sexual harassment case got thrown out? Maybe the gals at the PPB have just had enough already.

My feeling is that this situation publicly announces the fact that everything we do, private or not, can be scrutinized. More "public officials" are getting caught with their hands in their...cookie jars than ever before.

With the surveillance culture we are living in, very little goes by undetected. The only question is whetther some bureaucrat decides that it would be in his interests to publish the faux pas. Crime happens--It is just the unfortunate criminals who get used for political and/or financial gain.

Mr. Foxworth's sexual escapades should have remained his business, but since we must watch as personal lives are laid open before us, we should remember that whether we like or agree with our police chief, he has the right to the same constitutional protections that we have, a right to privacy and to associate with whom he chooses. To renounce his rights diminishes our own rights.

Maybe Mr. Foxworth should remember what being "violated" feels like, the next time one of his officers violates the rights and privacy of a citizen, and he recieves the complaint---How did it feel when the shoe was on YOUR foot, Mr. Foxworth?

Or should I say "How did it feel to get YOURS caught in your zipper??"

Sixpack

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